Ms. Katherine Arnold's specialties are social work, counseling, and addiction therapy. Areas of expertise for Ms. Arnold include depression, domestic abuse, and grief. Ms. Arnold is in-network for United Healthcare Platinum, United Healthcare Compass, United Healthcare Navigate, and more.

Dr. Jonathan Gransee is a psychologist in Lancaster, PA. These areas are among his clinical interests: depression, phobias, and dissociative disorders. The average patient rating for Dr. Gransee is 4.0 stars out of 5. He is an in-network provider for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Coventry, and Cigna, in addition to other insurance carriers. Dr. Gransee has an open panel.

Dr. Polly Rost is a psychologist. Her areas of expertise include the following: high risk pregnancy, depression, and attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD). She is professionally affiliated with WellSpan York Hospital. Dr. Rost is an in-network provider for several insurance carriers, including United Healthcare Platinum, United Healthcare Compass, and United Healthcare Navigate. She welcomes new patients.

Ms. Joanne Pantanella-Crumling specializes in counseling and practices in Lancaster, PA. She has a special interest in play therapy, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and individual therapy. Ms. Pantanella-Crumling accepts United Healthcare Platinum, United Healthcare Compass, and United Healthcare Navigate, in addition to other insurance carriers.

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What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is commonly referred to as talk therapy or simply therapy. Trained therapists help and guide patients as they talk through issues in their life and problem-solve ways to make healthy changes.

The use of therapy is extremely common, with millions of people going through therapy each year in the United States alone. It can be useful for patients who want to learn coping skills when they are facing difficult issues or need to heal from past trauma. Therapy can also be a support tool when patients are facing stressful periods in their life. Essentially, therapy is helpful any time life events require more mental or emotional resources than a patient currently has. Change is a major theme of therapy, offering a supportive environment for patients to make changes to their life or themselves so that past problems stop recurring in the future.

There are several different types of psychotherapy, with the most common being cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT. This type of therapy focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, is a form of CBT that encourages acceptance and validation as well as change. Interpersonal therapy focuses on relationships and communication as a pathway to feeling better. Psychoanalysis, an older form of therapy invented by Sigmund Freud, teaches that all problems stem from the unconscious.
Although many people see therapists by themselves, not all psychotherapy is one-on-one. For example, in family therapy, the therapist treats a family as a unit. Patients can also participate in group therapy, where they meet as a group to work on issues.

Psychotherapy is a safe, powerful healing tool that can help patients lead happier and healthier lives. However, therapy is a joint effort between the patient and the therapist. Both need to work together in order for therapy to be effective.